Hearthstone Closed Beta Patch Notes

Blizzard

Today is the day for our Hearthstone Closed Beta patch! This patch also includes the account wipe, so when the servers are available for play once more, you’ll be starting again as if you were a new player. For more information on the wipe itself, please revisit our Account Wipe Incoming blog post, found here. Now, onto the patch notes! General

The maximum level is now 60, and you can earn XP in any game mode up to max level.

Chat has been rejiggered.

Gold gained in Play mode has changed from 5 gold per 5 wins to 10 gold per 3 wins.

You can now acquire Golden Basic minions at higher experience levels.

Arena rewards now give less dust and more cards.

More gold is guaranteed at 5 & 6 Arena wins.

At 9 Arena wins, you are now guaranteed an extra pack or a Golden card.

The animations for Secrets and Fatigue have been sped up dramatically.

All cards now have flavor text when you view them in your collection.

“Spell Power +1” has been renamed “Spell Damage +1”.

Heroes can be unlocked in any mode (Play/Arena/Practice)

Play, Practice and Friendly Play modes will now default to the custom deck selection UI if you've previously created a deck

You can now click on chat bubbles to respond

Social – When your friends complete an Arena run or get a Legendary card in a pack, you’ll be notified so you can tell them, “Grats!”

Quests that required you to win with a class now give you a choice between 2 classes.

New Stuff

Crafting Mode – If you want to craft or disenchant cards, we have a new UI for this. Click the “Crafting Mode” button to check it out.

Credits – Now you can see who’s behind all this nonsense.

Options – Our Game Menu and Options screen have a new look! And you can also re-play the cinematic!

Open Next Pack – Hit Spacebar after you open a pack to quickly unwrap your next one.

Many Golden cards have new animations! More to come! Check out Gelbin Mekkatorque!

Added event to transform coin into a card in your hand if you are going second

Support for custom fonts in Russian and Polish has been added

Generic Minions

Gelbin Mekkatorque’s – Is now a 0/3 and has a new power: At the end of your turn, restore 6 Health to a damaged character.

Replaying a minion that previously had health/attack modifications now shows the correct stats as it enters play.

The Arena AMM wheel should no longer disappear when you find a match.

Fixed an issue where the Spell Power visual effect could linger in your hand.

Quickly playing minions as card draw effects are occurring no longer causes cards to stack in your hand.

The opponent’s targeting arrow should now be appearing from the correct location.

The visual effect for silence is now appearing over the targeted minion.

Fixed an issue where spell animations would loop when multiple triggers occurred.

Fixed an issue where the hero power button could become tilted.

Gameplay

The announcer’s VO for both players should now be audible in the Arena.

Fixed an issue where the druid AI did not play their choice cards correctly.

Fixed an issue where sound effects would loop while in-game or in the Collection Manager.

Master Volume now also affects music volume.

A toast with your own name should no longer appear on login.

The “farming” area of the Pandaria board will now allow you to spawn three radishes.

Many bug fixes have also been included with this patch as well, so if you unearth another pesky bug, don’t forget to post them on our Bug Forums here. Our Technical Support forums for both PC and Mac are also available if you are having problems with graphics or the Hearthstone software itself.Opt-in to the Hearthstone closed beta here.

Comment by Sas148

Comment by TychoPsycho

The “farming” area of the Pandaria board will now allow you to spawn three radishes.

the most important fix of all!

Comment by Alfa

on 2013-10-02T14:36:43-05:00

"Closed Beta" Does this mean there will be no more beta invites?

Comment by perculia

on 2013-10-02T14:43:09-05:00

It means that the beta is invite-only at this point. The beta is currently undergoing maintenance so the servers can handle more beta players in the future.

Comment by Alkony

on 2013-10-02T20:12:12-05:00

I wonder when/if they are going to add the mobile app to the beta. I wish I had gotten an invite to the early beta so I could have gotten Gelbin. :(

Comment by fewyn

on 2013-10-02T21:19:56-05:00

I wonder when/if they are going to add the mobile app to the beta. I wish I had gotten an invite to the early beta so I could have gotten Gelbin. :(

I actually played the iPad app when I visited Blizzard a month or so ago, it's probably ready but I don't think they can release apps in the store as a "Beta". So I think that's why we probably don't see it yet.

Comment by Alkony

on 2013-10-03T17:15:23-05:00

I actually played the iPad app when I visited Blizzard a month or so ago, it's probably ready but I don't think they can release apps in the store as a "Beta". So I think that's why we probably don't see it yet.

That's a fair point.

Comment by Nepo

on 2013-10-10T18:16:51-05:00

Blizzard is paying a lot of attention to the users when fixing things in game. That's good. :)

Comment by Dikidiki

on 2013-10-13T11:54:26-05:00

when will the next set of beta keys be swept out

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